{"id":1772,"date":"2009-12-13T08:42:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T08:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/mild-gun-control-laws\/"},"modified":"2009-12-13T08:42:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T08:42:06","slug":"mild-gun-control-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/mild-gun-control-laws.php","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Mild&quot; Gun Control Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Like public health care, Canada&rsquo;s tight gun-control laws help distinguish the country from its powerful neighbor to the south. But as Canadians commemorated the 20th anniversary of one of the country&rsquo;s most notorious shooting sprees on Sunday, their Parliament was on course to eliminate one of its most significant gun-control measures.<\/p><p>A long-gun registry, which requires the registration of rifles and shotguns, emerged largely from public revulsion over the massacre in 1989.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>What should libertarians think about gun control laws, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/07\/world\/americas\/07canada.html?_r=1&amp;hp\">long-gun registration in Canada<\/a>, that inconvenience purchasers but do not, by themselves, prevent responsible persons from owning&nbsp;guns?<\/p><p>My view is that the direct costs of such laws are small, but so are the direct benefits.&nbsp; It is possible that registration occassionally allows police to solve a crime or remove a gun from an unstable situation, but the number of such instances is rare.&nbsp;&nbsp; Thus, it is hard to get excited about such laws, for or against, if one considers only their direct impact.<\/p><p>The crucial question is slippery slopes.&nbsp; If mild controls like registration or&nbsp;background checks pave the way for more serious laws - bans on some or all guns - then in my judgment mild laws cause substantial harm.<\/p><p>What does the evidence say about slippery slopes?&nbsp; Most countries had no gun control laws a century ago,&nbsp;and their initial laws were \"mild.\"&nbsp; Yet over time gun control has expanded enormously, and in some countries it amounts to virtual prohibition.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is consistent with slopes being slippery.<\/p><p>Given this, and my view that mild laws&nbsp;rarely generate direct benefits, I oppose all gun control laws, including mild ones.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f31c4_6379328854053402400-8336052778073412186?l=jeffreymiron.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like public health care, Canada&rsquo;s tight gun-control laws help distinguish the country from its powerful neighbor to the south. But as Canadians commemorated the 20th anniversary of one of the country&rsquo;s most notorious shooting sprees on Sunday, their Parliament was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/mild-gun-control-laws.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarianism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}